HE DOES COOKING?!?!

Anyone see this story in the news a couple of weeks ago about a 12-year old who built a fusion reactor? This is a well-established DIY project. The design is a Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor, which uses high electric fields to force hydrogen atoms into fusing together. There is a whole community of fusion fans building reactors in basements and garages around the world.

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Following last week's post about the lesson on special relativity which we received in It's About Time, I started to think about what this episode tells us about time travel in Equestria?

What do we know about time travel in our own universe?

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So, in economics class today, I engaged in a heated debate about how A.I. will/will not replace the human workers. I found the topic quite interesting, so I have compiled some of my research here.

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New Particle Physics Gadgeteering post: Studying an Eclipse from Deep Underground, which might look like a contrived attempt to attach an eclipse tag to an underground science story, but this is a true report of what I was doing during the 2006 solar eclipse.

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Bionics, by definition, is the application of biological methods and systems found in the natural setting to study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.

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Any fans of Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact want to learn more about the mysterious ancient hieroglyphs that puzzled Daring Do and Twilight Sparkle in that story?

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Specifically, from me.

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Compute the thrust power, exhaust velocity, specific impulse, thrust, and mass flow of the Celestia Drive.

(i.e., that particular fusion torch drive created by placing an alicorn at the base of your rocket and feeding her cake to transform by obscure magical metabolic processes into burning hot nuclear plasma)

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It has been pointed out that Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors was somewhat ridiculous. But Equestria runs on ridiculous ideas, so why not nuclear power?

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So, after talking to some amazing people while attending a science based summer camp program —run by a university in my hometown— last year, I have continued to sign up for more of their camps.

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So, in the ten years I've been writing pony fan-fiction, I have had a persistent dilemma: I love sci-fi, but the MLP universe is intrinsically a fantasy setting. Many noble stories have bridged that gap, including some of my personal favorites (Kkat's Fallout, Iceman's Friendship is Optimal, and Arad's Stardust, as a small sampling). But except for a few scraps in my short story collections, I've never tried to write a true Science Fiction story myself.

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Pineta has made a nice post explaining some of the SCIENCE behind Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact.

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/899776/survival-probability

-GM, master of SCIENCE.

The next chapter of Time on Their Hooves is now out. Continuing this saga of timekeeping in Equestria.

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So.... this picture here: https://derpiboo.ru/1192925?scope=scpe831581033d1ee3cdfe5140b3916487bfcc3cdad7

got me to thinking. A dangerous thing indeed.

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Happy Hearth's Warming. I know many Fimfiction science fans love discussing the physics of flying hooved creatures all year round. But this is the season when mainstream news outlets do it too. If you like this stuff check out:

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This post is excessively self-congratulatory. Should I try to be as cool as Rainbow Dash?

Or should I declare myself the Greatest and Most Powerfullest physics-themed pony fanfiction writer in Oxford University?

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This week the world of British science communicators has been buzzing with talk about the adventures of Tim Peake.

From a global perspective, this is not exactly newsworthy. Tim is a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, who is boldly going where—err—some two hundred people have gone before and starting a six month mission on the International Space Station.

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Fancy writing a short story for 30$ per 1k and know your way around physics?
This has to be one of the coolest 'contests' so far.
Go have a look.
for science communication!

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Pinkie Pie clearly knows a thing or two about balloons, as her cutie mark would suggest. We can only speculate about the history of party balloons in Equestria. Did ponies play with blown up pigs' bladders in times past? Or did have more respect for their fellow hooved creatures and only start the party with the invention of rubber membranes?

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